1,417 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed – the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.

You’ve got an awfully kissable mouth.

I talk with the authority of failure – Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

I’ll drink your champagne. I’ll drink every drop of it, I don’t care if it kills me.

Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don’t in the beginning.

I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one- the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul.

Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction – Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn... No – Gatsby turned out all right in the end; it was what prayed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and the short-winded elations of men.